Your contributions make a difference! With your help, the Library can continue to develop significant collections in many different languages, maintain sophisticated mixed-media resources, and provide community lectures and other outreach programs and educational services for all ages.

In the case of the Foundation's "Branching Out" campaign, private philanthropy is urgently needed to outfit each expanded or newly created facility with state-of-the-art technology and comfortable, well-designed furnishings and fixtures.

Approximately $500,000 is needed per branch. In each neighborhood served by a branch library, community supporters will help outfit the libraries as welcoming, well-equipped, useful and comfortable facilities that serve their community's needs.

All gifts to the San José Public Library Foundation in support of the Library System are welcome and much appreciated. Because the Foundation is an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, donations to the Foundation are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law.

In addition to personal checks, donors may contribute gifts through Family Foundations, Workplace Giving Campaigns, or Corporate Matching Gift Programs.

If you have a Family Foundation or a Donor-Advised Fund through the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, or other philanthropic management organization, you can make a gift to the Foundation by authorizing contributions from your fund.

Donors may make cash gifts directly to the Foundation by designating a payroll deduction or making an outright, one-time gift through the United Way or other workplace giving program offered by their employers. Please write "San José Public Library Foundation" to specify the beneficiary of your gift.

Donors whose companies participate in matching gift programs can double the value of their gift by requesting a matching gift from their employer. A copy of the matching gift form must be submitted with your own contribution.

Gifts may be made in honor or in memory of a loved one. Acknowledgement is sent to the person being honored, or to the family of the individual for whom a memorial has been donated.

Special recognition opportunities within the branch libraries are available.

• Donors who make gifts of $100 or more to the Branching Out campaign will receive permanent recognition, in a format appropriate to the setting, in the branch of their choice.
• Donors who make gifts of $1,000 or more will be recognized on a Donor Wall in the branch of their choice, in an area designated by the architects for visibility and compatibility with the building’s design.
• Donors who make gifts of $5,000 or more will, in addition to their acknowledgement on the Donor Wall, will also be elligible to receive recognition in a specified room or area in the branch of their choice, based on availability of spaces. more...

If you would like to discuss funding a specific program or interest area, please contact Mary McLane, Executive Director, at 408 808-2174.

Thank you for your interest in supporting the San José Public Libraries.